In the comics, Mariko was poisoned. Rather than die a very painful death, she asked Wolverine to stab her with his claws, which he did.

I'm not seeing the movie until Tuesday, but one of the last tracks on the soundtrack (which I already have) is called "Goodbye Mariko", so it sounds like that's where they're heading here as well. At least I"m guessing at this point.

In the comics, Mariko was poisoned. Rather than die a very painful death, she asked Wolverine to stab her with his claws, which he did.

I'm not seeing the movie until Tuesday, but one of the last tracks on the soundtrack (which I already have) is called "Goodbye Mariko", so it sounds like that's where they're heading here as well. At least I"m guessing at this point.

That makes sense. I have only read the Japan mini series. Thank you.

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would you say in her scenes it was the Jean Grey persona or was it more like "Phoenix???"

I was going to ask the same

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imo the Jean Grey that we saw in TW is the Phoenix in the afterlife, the nice Jean Grey wouldn't say the things that the Jean in TW said to Wolverine.

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FANTASTIC FOUR"This is our chance to make a difference" - Sue Storm - The Invisible Woman"He's stronger than any of us but he's not stronger than all of us" - Reed Richards - Mr. Fantastic"We could these powers to help people" - Johnny Storm - The Human Torch"You can't fix this, nobody can" - Ben Grimm - The Thing

IA. Especially given the focus of their conversations. She was always talking about him "staying" with her, or the fact that he had killed her.

Although, I admit I have mixed feelings about that approach. I get why she was there in the movie and I get why Wolverine would see her that way. But I think it might have been interesting if we saw her evolve a bit, start to challenge his attitude towards her, push him change and move on. It would have been more interesting, and I think it would have done better service to her character. I want to remember Jean as an intelligent woman who sacrificed her self for her friends, not as a source of Wolverine's angst: and I'd like to see HIM remember her that way too.

Also, I think that route would have made it possible to interpret it as being the real Jean trying to help Logan move on.

FANTASTIC FOUR"This is our chance to make a difference" - Sue Storm - The Invisible Woman"He's stronger than any of us but he's not stronger than all of us" - Reed Richards - Mr. Fantastic"We could these powers to help people" - Johnny Storm - The Human Torch"You can't fix this, nobody can" - Ben Grimm - The Thing

would you say in her scenes it was the Jean Grey persona or was it more like "Phoenix???"

In my opinion:

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It's more Phoenix. But as someone else said, it's more Logan's imagination of her than anything. But the persona is much more "Phoenix" than it is "Jean Grey", what with her subtle taunting and haunting of him and such.